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The influence of spin on a photon's motion in a Schwarzschild and FRW spacetimes is studied. The first order correction to the geodesic motion is found. It is shown that unlike the world-lines of spinless particles, the photons world-lines…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Turakulov , M. Safonova

Propagation of light in the gravitational field of self-gravitating spinning bodies moving with arbitrary velocities is discussed. The gravitational field is assumed to be "weak" everywhere. Equations of motion of a light ray are solved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Kopeikin , Bahram Mashhoon

The interaction between spin and gravitational waves causes spinning bodies to deviate from their geodesics. In this work, we obtain the analytic solution of the Mathisson--Papapetrou--Dixon equations at linear order in the spin for plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Ke Wang

We study conversion processes between gravitons and dark photons and reveal the effects of dark photons on the polarization of gravitational waves. Considering cosmological dark magnetic fields, we investigate the evolution of the intensity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Kimihiro Nomura , Jiro Soda , Kazushige Ueda , Ziwei Wang

The influence of spin in a system of classical particles on the propagation of gravitational waves is analyzed in the cosmological context of primordial thermal equilibrium. On a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, when the precession…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Irene Milillo , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Giovanni Montani

Einstein's theory predicts that, massive test particles with non-zero spin or angular momentum, in an external gravitation field, follow geodesics which depend upon the orientation of the spin-angular momentum . It has been claimed that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mohanty , A. R. Prasanna

An improved formula for the timing of binary pulsars that accounts for the relativistic deflection of light in the gravitational field of the pulsar's companion is presented, and the measurability of this effect together with its variance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Oleg Doroshenko , Sergei Kopeikin

We explore different facets of the action of linearized gravitational waves in Minkowski spacetime background upon light, under the electromagnetic geometrical optics limit, covering the main aspects: light trajectory perturbations, radar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-05 João C. Lobato , Isabela S. Matos , Lucas T. Santana , Ribamar R. R. Reis , Maurício O. Calvão

The photon motion in a Michelson interferometer is re-analyzed in both geometrical optics and wave optics. The classical paths of the photons in the background of gravitational wave are derived from Fermat principle, which is the same as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Zhe Chang , Chao-Guang Huang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

We derive the delay in travel time of photons due to the spin of a body both inside a rotating shell and outside a rotating body. We then show that this time delay by the spin of an astrophysical object might be detected in different images…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignazio Ciufolini , Franco Ricci

We reexamined the gravitational time delay of light, allowing for various models of modified gravity. We clarify the dependence of the time delay (and induced frequency shift) on modified gravity models and investigate how to distinguish…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideki Asada

We study the motion of spinning test particles in Kerr spacetime using the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations; we impose different supplementary conditions among the well known Corinaldesi-Papapetrou, Pirani and Tulczyjew's and analyze their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Donato Bini , Fernando de Felice , Andrea Geralico

The Gaia mission offers a new opportunity to search for the low frequency gravitational wave background using astrometric measurements. In this paper, the astrometric effect of gravitational waves is reviewed, with a particular focus on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Anthony Lasenby , Gerard Gilmore

We derive the contributions of spin-orbit and spin-spin coupling to the gravitational radiation from coalescing binary systems of spinning compact objects. We calculate spin effects in the symmetric, trace-free radiative multipoles that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Lawrence E. Kidder , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

The effect of gravitational tidal forces on photon propagation in curved spacetime is investigated. It is found that the imaginary part of the local refractive index Im n(u;w) may be negative as well as positive, corresponding to a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Timothy J. Hollowood , Graham M. Shore

In this work we calculate some estimations of the gravitomagnetic clock effect, taking into consideration not only the rotating gravitational field of the central mass, but also the spin of the test particle, obtaining values for $\Delta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Nelson Velandia-Heredia , Juan Manuel Tejeiro-Sarmiento

The studies of influence of spin on a photon's motion in a Schwartzschild spacetime is continued. In the previous paper [13] the first order correction to the geodesic motion is found for the first half of the photon world line. The system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Z. Y. Turakulov , A. T. Muminov

Gravitational lens models, some of which might act as if a concave lens, have been recently investigated by using a static and spherically symmetric modified spacetime metric that depends on the inverse distance to the $n$-th power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Koki Nakajima , Koji Izumi , Hideki Asada

We present a novel test of general relativity (GR): measuring the geometric component of the time delay due to gravitational lensing. GR predicts that photons and gravitational waves follow the same geodesic paths and thus experience the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 David Rubin , Istvan Szapudi , Benjamin J. Shappee , Gagandeep S. Anand

Gravitational field can cause a rotation of polarisation plane of light. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational Faraday effect. We study the gravitational Faraday effect of linearly polarised light propagating in the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-20 Andrey A. Shoom